Changelog: week of May 4, 2026

Payments are live

Adding funds, subscriptions, and tips run against live payment processing rather than a test environment.

"Top up" is now "Add funds" everywhere it appears — the wallet page, the checkout page, and the card receipt. The wallet is credited after the charge settles, for the amount that arrives net of the processing fee, and the page states that before you pay.

The subscribe button on a channel reads "Subscribe". Completing or cancelling that checkout returns you to the streamer's page rather than to your wallet.

The wallet page has a Remove card control. The confirmation lists what removing it does: auto-refill is disabled, and any active subscriptions are cancelled at the end of the current billing period, with access retained until then.

Earnings and payouts

Streamers have an Earnings page under Money. It shows the pending balance, when the next payout batch runs, lifetime totals for tips and subscriptions gross and net, the last 50 earning events merged into one timeline, and transfer history.

Payouts run as a weekly batch on Sunday at 22:00 UTC with a $50 minimum. Transferred funds sit in the connected account for about seven days before sweeping to the bank, so the practical cadence from batch to bank is roughly eight days.

Pricing

Streaming compute dropped from $0.013 per minute to $0.004 per minute — $0.24 per hour.

The pricing reference was restructured around the three ways money moves: adding funds to the wallet, $5-per-month subscriptions, and metered compute, bandwidth, and storage. Tips charge the card directly instead of drawing down wallet credit. Tips and subscriptions carry a 1% platform fee, applied after payment processing fees. Wallet credit is store credit and is not refundable.

Design

The theme was rebuilt on a smaller set of tokens with the brand colors as the source: a slate blue for the wordmark, links, and primary actions, and a warm gray-tan as the secondary. Copy across the site was revised to match.

On the home page, the navbar wordmark stays hidden while the hero is on screen and appears once it scrolls past. The footer was cut down.